Astana City () was a professional road bicycle racing team sponsored by the Samruk-Kazyna, a coalition of state-owned companies from Kazakhstan and named after its capital city Astana. Astana City acted as a junior feeder team to , alongside Vino 4ever SKO. The team disbanded at the end of the 2019 season.
Team history 2014: Three doping positives During the 2014 season three riders, Ilya Davidenok, Victor Okishev and Artur Fedosseyev tested positive for anabolic androgenic steroids. Davidenok tested positive at the Tour de l'Avenir, Okishev tested positive at the Asian Cycling Championships while Fedosseyev tested positive at Tour de l'Ain. The riders were provisionally suspended awaiting doping hearings.Cyclingnews: Fedosseyev is fifth doping case for Astana organisation, cyclingnews.com, 26 November 2014 The next day Alexander Vinokourov, head of , was reported to have suspended the entire continental team.
2015: Seven Rivers In 2015 the team changed name to Seven Rivers Cycling Team. Six of the ten riders had previously ridden for the Continental Team Astana.
2016: Astana City In 2016, the team changed name to Astana City and retained eight riders from Seven Rivers.
Final roster
Major wins
2012 Stage 2a Vuelta a la Independencia Nacional, Ruslan Tleubayev Stage 4 Vuelta a la Independencia Nacional, Arman Kamyshev Stage 2 La Tropicale Amissa Bongo, Nikita Umerbekov Stage 5 Heydar Aliyev Anniversary Tour, Nikita Umerbekov Overall Saguenay U23, Arman Kamyshev Stages 1 & 3, Arman Kamyshev Sant'Ermete, Ruslan Tleubayev Stage 3 Baby Giro, Ruslan Tleubayev Stage 1 Giro della Valle d'Aosta, Arman Kamyshev Stage 5 Giro della Valle d'Aosta, Alexey Lutsenko Stage 1 Tour Alsace, Ruslan Tleubayev Stage 5 Tour de l'Avenir, Alexey Lutsenko Overall Tour of Bulgaria, Maxat Ayazbayev Stage 1b, Alexey Lutsenko Stage 2, Arman Kamyshev 2013 Stage 7 Tour of Qinghai Lake, Evgeniy Nepomnyachshiy Stage 5 Priirtyshe Stage Race, Ilya Davidenok Atina, Maxat Ayazbayev 2014 Stage 7 Vuelta a la Independencia Nacional, Nurbolat Kulimbetov Stage 5 Tour de Normandie, Marco Benfatto Stage 2 Le Tour de Bretagne Cycliste trophée harmonie Mutuelle, Vadim Galeyev Stages 2 & 4 Tour of Qinghai Lake, Marco Benfatto Stage 3 Tour of China II, Vadim Galeyev 2015 Stage 4 Bałtyk–Karkonosze Tour, Nurbolat Kulimbetov Stage 4 Tour of Bulgaria, Nikita Panassenko 2016 Grand Prix of ISD, Nurbolat Kulimbetov 2017 Stage 5a (ITT) Baltyk–Karkonosze Tour, Vadim Pronskiy Stage 5b Baltyk–Karkonosze Tour, Grigoriy Shtein Stage 3 Grand Prix Priessnitz spa, Dinmukhammed Ulysbayev 2018 Overall Tour of Fatih Sultan Mehmet Stage 1, Galym Akhmetov Overall Giro Ciclistico della Valle d'Aosta Mont Blanc, Vadim Pronskiy Stage 4, Vadim Pronskiy
World, Continental and National champions 2012 World U23 Road Race Championships, Alexey Lutsenko 2013 Asian U23 Continental Time Trial Championships, Daniil Fominykh 2014 Asian U23 Continental Time Trial Championships, Viktor Okishev Kazakhstan National Road Race Championships, Ilya Davidenok
See also Astana Pro Team Astana BePink Women's Team List of Astana City rosters
References